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- Liquor Distributor Increases Business Efficiency
- Alliance Beverage Distributing Company ABDC is the largest alcoholic-beverage distributor in the Arizona. ABDC wanted to replace a cumbersome and time-consuming paper-based route delivery and customer inventory system with an automated mobile solution. ABDC worked with Microsoft partner Tolt Technologies to deploy Symbol Pocket PCs running delivery software from Agentek.
- Tags: Distributor, Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Case studies
- Case Study: Web Based Inventory Integration With AS400 / JD Edwards
- A national distributor of imported hardware components needed a way to link customers, suppliers, and salespeople to current inventory, pricing, and specification data that were stored on their AS400 JD Edwards system. This distributor faced the problem of a global sales force that is struggling to keep a current record...
- Tags: Web, Distributor, J.D. Edwards & Co., IBM AS/400, Integration, Pricing, Marketing Research, XML, Servers, Marketing, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Hardware
- Case studies
- Distributor Improves Competitive Edge With Business Management Solution
- Since 2001, The Westye Group - Midwest has furnished high-end kitchen appliances through a network of 160 dealers. The company had been using a business solution designed for manufacturers. It did not provide the flexibility to accommodate The Westye Group's business processes, nor did it support management's information needs. The...
- Tags: Solution, Distributor, Business Management, Microsoft Corp., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Operational Planning, Sales, Business Operations
- Case studies
- Global Distributor Improves Customer Service With Integrated E-Commerce System
- A former division of Westinghouse, WESCO works with more than 24,000 suppliers to distribute products to more than 100,000 enterprise customers around the world. In response to increasing customer demands for better, more efficient online ordering, WESCO deployed a flexible, tightly integrated e-commerce solution built on Microsoft Windows Server System....
- Tags: Customer Service, Distributor, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Server System, Customer, Microsoft Corp., E-business, Web Technology, Microsoft Windows, E-business/E-Commerce, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Hardware
- Case studies
- French Distributor Enhances Decision Making With Business Intelligence Tools
- Leading French retail distributor and business-to-business telecommunications solutions provider SFD historically used Business Objects software to report on business performance. While this technology effectively analysed commercial data, it could not integrate information from operational areas such as human resources, IT, and financial accounting. To solve the problem, the company decided...
- Tags: Distributor, Decision-making, Microsoft Corp., Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Pricing, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Marketing
- Case studies
- Distributor Seeks Improved Information Management, Additional Sales With CRM
- Nemco Machinery A/S, a leading provider of food-processing equipment to companies in Denmark and Sweden, faced a problem increasingly common to many businesses today: too many information systems but too little information. Like many growing organizations, Nemco had implemented custom-built systems to handle various business needs. However, the systems were...
- Tags: Information Management, Distributor, Information, CRM, Sales Strategy, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Force Management, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Sales, Marketing, Software, Management
- Case studies
- Medical Company Saves $375,000 Annually With Paperless Workflow, Improved Search
- Kinex Medical Company provides physical therapy devices that help patients regain mobility after surgery. The 75-person company leases its devices through 125 distributors in 23 states. Paper-based processes slowed communication between Kinex and its distributors, which, in turn, slowed insurance payments to Kinex. Employees wasted time hunting down information and...
- Tags: Distributor, Microsoft Corp., Workflow, Therapy, Portals, Web Technology, Process Improvement, Internet, Quality, Business Operations
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- Optimus Maximus
- Despite its innovative approach to keyboard design, the OLED-based Optimus Maximus keyboard is best considered an expensive novelty. Its $1,600 price tag keeps it out of the hands of the average consumer, and we also question the practical benefit of using 113 customizable OLED screens as an input device. There...
- Tags: Keyboards, Lebedev Studio, default layout, Optimus Maximus, Optimus Corp., keyboard
- Product reviews 2008-07-17
- Tahiti: Microsoft's ultimate many-core destination
- Tahiti: Microsoft's ultimate many-core destinationmulticoreinfo.comCheck out http://multicoreinfo.com for multicore related news and programming resources.Tired of CoresI'm tired of the core nonsense. How about we use the existing cores more effectively?Anyone stick a scratched CD/DVD into a Vista machine and enjoy the explorer freeze-up while some blocking i/o is going on?...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Tahiti, multi-core, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-15
- Scanned Document Distributor (exe)
- Scanned Document Distributor is a highly configurable application that scans documents and can perform any number of actions on them. Scanned Document Distributor lets you define 'profiles'. Each profile contains a scan action, followed by one or more actions to be performed on the scanned documents. Five action types are...
- Tags: Document, Action, Nico Cuppen Software, Scanners, Hardware, Peripherals
- Software downloads 2008-07-14
- Yahoo rejects latest Microsoft-Icahn proposal; Calls Microsoft 'erratic'
- Yahoo rejects latest Microsoft-Icahn proposal; Calls Microsoft 'erratic'What is the fascination with bringing up Vista in......just about every blog forum? This blog had nothing to do with Vista yet here you are whining about it. Why?It has to do with eyeballs and marketing.In the search market, Yahoo is number 2...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Icahn
- Discussion threads 2008-07-13
- iPhone 3G poses barriers to business adoption
- UK enterprise adoption of the iPhone 3G may be hampered by security issues and Apple's exclusive partnership with O2, among other factors. For years, Apple has paid little attention to products for enterprise users. Now it's pitching its new iPhone 3G as: "The best phone for business. Ever". But...
- Tags: Barrier, Apple iPhone, Phone, O2 Plc., John Romeis, Gordon Barnes, Paul Jarvis, Phil Jackson, Ignacio Toro Lyng, 3G, Cellular Phones, GPS, Telecom & Utilities, Wireless, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Natasha Lomas silicon.com, iPhone 3G, smart phones, Apple, IT
- News items 2008-07-11
- iPhone has a year to make its open source play
- iPhone has a year to make its open source playWhat crapWindows Mobile grew 90% YoY 2007 to 2008. If they repeat that they would sell around 40 million 2008-2009. Would that be enough for your so-called 'wide distribution'?Also, unlike your pathetic theory, in practice open source advocates are targeting...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating systems, Handhelds, TheTruthGiver, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., open source, Microsoft Windows Mobile, mobile
- Discussion threads 2008-07-11
- Best Buy to sell Ubuntu for $19.99
- Canonical, along with software distributor ValuSoft, have come together to push a boxed version of Ubuntu 8.04 into Best Buy retail stores. The catch, it'll cost you $19.99. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Ubuntu, Best Buy Co. Inc., Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
- A world ruled by Apple
- A world ruled by AppleGood post[i]I am perfectly willing to praise Apple or Linux when I feel they are doing something right, and do so on a regular basis in this blog. That’s why I have a hard time understanding the need to believe that Gates did nothing right, in...
- Tags: Operating systems, PRODUCTIVITY, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- iPhone 3G to hit Europe July 1st?
- iPhone 3G to hit Europe July 1st?NopeNope, you cannot. In my opinion, this refers to the current offering of the iPhone tariff packs. Not the iPhone itself will be unavailable after 30.6., but the low-cost tariffs - which were never meant to be offered after the 30.6.This wasn't just a...
- Tags: Cellular phones, WIRELESS, 3G, Apple iPhone, Orange PCS
- Discussion threads 2008-06-05
- Waiting for the right netbooks
- Waiting for the right netbooksASUS even plans an iMac rival....G*d, I love ASUS... :-)http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/146605/asustek_to_launch_imac_rival_in_september.htmlHopefully again with the option of a preinstalled Linux. If not, you can always install it yourself:http://ubuntutip.googlepages.com/(not for you, Chris! You already know how)But I suppose they'll have a Linux in the BIOS anyway, being...
- Tags: Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Linux, ASUS, XO-2
- Discussion threads 2008-06-03
- McAfee partner isn't McAfee secure
- I was over reading Russ McRee's blog today, and I've got to say, if McAfee's HackerSafe (or whatever they're calling it now) doesn't die off soon, then he'll be able to write a novel about their trials and tribulations. Apparently, McAfee authorized distributor Winferno.com is not HackerSafe......
- Tags: McAfee Inc., Video, Russ McRee, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- Brazilian Pipeline Operator Enhances IT Security With Software Upgrade
- Brazil's leading natural gas distributor, Comgas had an outdated IT desktop infrastructure. The company decided to upgrade its environment to the Windows Vista operating system and the 2007 Microsoft Office system to provide company professionals with enhanced security and productivity features, and its IT team with simplified management. The company...
- Tags: Desktop, IT Security, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Software Upgrade, Strategy, Telecom & Utilities, Enterprise Software, Software, Management
- Case studies 2008-05-08
- Shuttleworth makes corporate case for Ubuntu 8.04 on its launch
- Updated Ubuntu creator Mark Shuttleworth said version 8.04 features a sexier GUI for consumers but it's the Long Term Support, Wubi Windows installer, server assets and expanding ecosystem that will make it a rising star in the corporate world. Ubuntu 8.04 Long Term Support...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, Red Hat Inc., Servers, Open Source, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
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